'The Brutal Facts'

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Current church growth and missionary methods aren't accompishing God's vision for the peoples of the earth.

Christians in growing in absolute numbers, but believers are not growing as a share of world population. Many are passive, nominal, or discouraged. Many areas and people groups remain unreached. Faith is losing ground, especially among the young. Traditional churches in many countries including the USA are shallowing, drifting, shrinking, and closing. Traditional strategies are expensive and workers few.


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For a sobering tour, see John S. Dickerson's The Great Evangelical Recession: Six Factors That Will Crash the American Church ... and How to Prepare.

Matthew 24:14 prompts a key motivating question: What's it gonna take ('WIGTake') to evangelize a whole people group in a generation to make progress in fulfilling the Great Commission?

Obstacles include spiritual strongholds, lack of Christian credibility/trust, cultural barriers, Christian cultural momentum, power imbalances, busyness, bottlenecks, resource costs, complacency, and fear. But thousands of movements are overcoming these, on every continent across the world.